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Graves Island by Marci Lin Melvin

Riveting, disturbing, and impossible to shake. Melvin delivers a gripping, unsettling thriller about buried crimes, dangerous secrets, and a past that refuses to stay silent. After a devastating Nor’easter, forensic anthropologist Marigold Merry discovers three children’s skulls beneath a pier…
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All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick

A tense, twisty, and absorbing tale of secrets that refuse to stay buried. When Kiera McKenna’s best friend’s nephew disappears from a nearby Nebraska town, the case hits close to an already troubled home. Kiera’s marriage to Pierce, the powerful…
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Point First by Nannette Potter

Taut, twisty, and thoroughly absorbing. Potter’s gripping thriller brings a professional knife-thrower into a complex story of family secrets, political ambition, and corruption. Genevieve “Blade” Broussard arrives in Charleston searching for the truth about her newly discovered, powerful paternal family,…
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Play Me Once: A Psychological Thriller (The Portland Murders # 2) by MM Desch

A deliciously twisty thriller of love, lies, and murder. Desch’s second Portland Murders novel pairs a tangled murder investigation with an intimate, increasingly unsettling romance. Grace MacKenzie has spent decades mastering the art of silence, burying grief, desire, and pieces…
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The Third Estate: Devil’s Tango (The Third Estate Series Book 2) by D.R. Berlin

A propulsive blend of conspiracy, dark humor, and assassin intrigue. A military doctor and a legendary assassin are drawn into the same dangerous conspiracy in Berlin’s fast-moving second volume in the Third Estate series. Captain Sophie Allard is trying to…
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The Secessionist’s Wife by Wolf Bahren

Tense, intelligent, and chillingly plausible… Bahren paints a chilling portrait of a country on edge, where suspicion, ideology, and fear erode the boundaries between public duty and private life. The destruction at Fort Riley sends the country into chaos and…
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Solitary Creatures by Steve Hamilton

Melancholic, witty, and steeped in noir fatalism… Hamilton’s absorbing novel begins with a familiar mystery—a husband hires an old acquaintance to investigate his wife’s suspected affair—but quickly reveals itself to be something darker and more emotionally complex. Toronto lawyer Fletcher…
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Zig Zag Girl by Ruth Knafo Setton

A dazzling blend of murder, magic, and noir… A young magician’s search for answers draws her into Atlantic City’s haunted past in Setton’s deeply atmospheric mystery. When magician Lucy Moon discovers her best friend murdered inside a notorious sawing box…
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Floating in the Middle by Frances L Rivetti

Vivid, tense, and emotionally resonant… A reunion edges toward collapse in Rivetti’s atmospheric, climate-conscious drama. Seven former college friends reunite for a long weekend at a remote Northern California beach house perched on a crumbling cliff. With plans for coastal…
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Hazy Shade by Jim Lively

Tense, unsettling, and psychologically gripping. A Dallas defense attorney questions his sanity in Lively’s psychological legal thriller. A delayed retirement sparks tension with Simon Steed’s increasingly cold protégé, Shade Olson. But as disturbing events unfold nearby, his biggest question becomes:…
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Persona by William J. Cook

A haunting, intelligent, slow-burning thriller that explores memory, trauma, and identity. Cook weaves psychological tension and mystery in this story of a psychiatrist drawn into a case where identity itself becomes suspect. Psychiatrist Carter Lane inherits his best friend’s patients…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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Nevermore: Book Two of the Poetic Justice Series by Findlay Ward

Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically driven; a quiet thriller with bite. A disappearance on a remote island forces the past to surface—and refuse silence in Ward’s second entry in the Poetic Justice Series.Schoolteacher Rachael McKenzie convinces her abusive husband, Brandon, to…
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Tracking Ariana: A Dan Burnett Thriller by Larry Terhaar

A timely, tightly wound thriller of disappearance and power.  In this urgent political thriller, Terhaar explores what happens when due process quietly disappears. Detained despite her lawful status, Ariana Wilkinson is quietly transferred out of reach, leaving her husband, Colonel…
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Mortal Revenge by Ana Manwaring, Fernando León Torrens

Intense, harrowing, and profoundly gripping. Ana Manwaring and Fernando León Torrens deliver a taut, hard-hitting thriller that drops one man into a world where trust is dangerous and survival is never guaranteed. What should have been a simple visit home…
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Lightning by Michael Ray Ewing

A sleek, unnerving sci-fi thriller that runs on dread and precision. Three strangers find themselves pulled into a catastrophe already in motion in Ewing’s compelling latest. Adam Barnett wakes after a lightning strike with half his memory burned away and…
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They Could Be Saviors by Diana Colleen

Dark, visionary, and unsettlingly human. Colleen’s taut, emotionally charged eco-thriller turns the climate crisis into a psychological reckoning. Five of the world’s richest men awaken in captivity and find themselves stripped of power and control. Their captors, a clandestine group…
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Plausible in Parts by James Dunlop

A tense, intelligent thriller that balances razor-edged wit with moral depth. When a brutal crime pulls him back into Europe’s underworld, a battle-worn mercenary must confront betrayal, conscience, and the ghosts of his past in Dunlop’s taut thriller. When private…
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Fractured by Jason Melby

Grim, atmospheric, and impossible to put down. Steeped in dread, Melby’s latest is a gothic tale of grief, obsession, and the dangerous power of storytelling. Still reeling from personal tragedy, novelist Stu Harvey takes on the task of telling Simon…
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Knock Out by Jaden Noble

A fierce, affecting debut that lands its blows with both power and heart. An abused young woman refuses to remain a victim in Noble’s taut, emotionally charged debut. Zena James has spent years running from a brutal father and the…